McCartney Times

If you want to learn how much someone doesn’t know about music, engage them in a conversation that weighs in on the importance of Ringo Starr to the Beatles. If the person casts Ringo as the bit player in the Beatles, you know he is missing the big picture and only assessing the vocal and songwriting prowess of the other three against “Don’t Pass Me By” and “Octopus’s Garden.”And there’s always that business about how Ringo couldn’t play drums (we’ll address that later).People love to ape tired argument gambits like “He’s the luckiest guy in show business,” “He was the guy who was along for the ride,” or “Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles,” that nasty quote attributed to John Lennon that everyone from Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn to Snopes has proved was uttered by a forgotten British comedian in 1983, three years after John ceased to exist.

Source: 10 Reasons Ringo Starr Was The Most Important Beatle | Phoenix New Times